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The first, interim review of the RAINBOW H2020 Research and Innovation Action with external reviewers and the Project Officer from the European Commission side took place (virtually) on July 29, 2021, wherein the RAINBOW consortium successfully presented the results of the work of the project during the first 18 months of the project. The vision of RAINBOW is to design and develop an open and trusted fog computing platform that facilitates the deployment and management of scalable, heterogeneous and secure IoT services and cross-cloud applications (i.e., microservices). RAINBOW falls within the bigger vision of delivering a platform enabling users to remotely control the infrastructure that is running, potentially, on hundreds of edge devices (e.g., wearables), thousands of fog nodes in a factory building or flying in the sky (e.g., drones), and millions of vehicles travelling in a certain area or across Europe. UBITECH is serving as the project’s administrative and technical coordinator, therefore presented the project’s progress towards its technical and operational objectives, as well as a summary of the project’s achievements so far.

Publishing a new blog post at the website of the STAR Research and Innovation Action (https://star-ai.eu/), UBITECH’s Entso Veliou, Dimitris Papamartzivanos and Thanassis Giannetsos (members of the Digital Security and Trusted Computing Research Group) discuss the benefits from the wide applicability of AI-enabled data verification frameworks in manufacturing environments, employing deep learning techniques in the form of neural networks to address the issue of possible data poisoning and evasion attacks in smart manufacturing environments while demonstrating high accuracy and scalability.

Continue reading UBITECH discusses the potentials of trustworthy AI in manufacturing

The Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (ICE-HT) of the Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), as coordinating partner, along with UBITECH and 10 more partners coming from Greek industry and research community announce the establishment of a reference Competence Center for 3D printing technologies in Greece and Southeastern Europe. The aforementioned competence center aims at the capitalization of relevant research results and know-how produced by universities or other knowledge-producing public organizations in Greece or abroad.

Continue reading UBITECH participates in the establishment of the first 3D Printing Competence Center in Greece and Southeast Europe

The paper “Segregating Keys from noncense: Timely Exfil of Ephemeral Keys from Embedded Systems” has been accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2021) that takes place 14-16 July 2021 in Cyprus, at the Coral Bay near the city of Pafos. Dr Thanassis Giannetsos, Head of UBITECH’s Digital Security and Trusted Computing Research Group, and his co-author, from DTU, demonstrate how adversaries can, without knowing the software layout or memory data structures of running services, exploit the Key-Exposure Problem (KEP) in network-connected resource-constrained microcontroller-based embedded systems (MCUS) to exfiltrate cryptographic keys, during system operation systematically, without affecting system usability.

Continue reading UBITECH presents a scientific paper on ephemeral keys extraction from embedded systems at DCOSS 2021

In collaboration with Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the European Research Center of Huawei Technologies in Germany, UBITECH publishes a preprint entitled “BLINDTRUST: Oblivious Remote Attestation for Secure Service Function Chains” at the arXiv open-access repository of electronic preprints and postprints (known as e-prints) approved for posting after moderation. Dr Thanassis Giannetsos, Head of UBITECH’s Digital Security and Trusted Computing Research Group, and his co-authors present a lightweight dynamic configuration integrity verification that enables inter and intra-device attestation without disclosing any configuration information and can be applied on both resource-constrained edge devices and cloud services. Their goal is to enhance run-time software integrity and trustworthiness with a scalable solution eliminating the need for federated infrastructure trust.

Continue reading UBITECH publishes an e-print on Oblivious Remote Attestation for Secure Service Function Chains at arXiv

The paper “Direct Anonymous Attestation on the Road: Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Revocation in C-ITS” has been accepted for presentation at the “14th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks” (ACM WiSec 2021) that takes place as an online, virtual conference from June 28 to July 2, 2021 and is hosted by the Center for Cyber Security at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). The UBITECH’s Digital Security and Trusted Computing research group proposes a novel revocation protocol for Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) based on Direct Anonymous Attestation (DAA) that leverages the benefits of trusted computing to offer an efficient and privacy-respecting solution.

Continue reading UBITECH presents a scientific paper on efficient and privacy-preserving revocation in cooperative intelligent transportation systems at ACM WiSec 2021

UBITECH has proudly participated in the 11^th MOBILE & CONNECTED WORLD CONFERENCE (https://www.mwc.gr/), (the first #5G focused business conference in Greece) held online on the 23^rd of June 2021. This year’s conference title was “5G: From prospects to reality!” and focus on potential 5G implementation aspects and new services, presenting the views of all Greek market operators, major vendors and innovative companies in the field of 5G.

Continue reading UBITECH discusses about 5G for Industry 4.0 at the MWC 2021

The first review of the FARCROSS H2020 Innovation Action research project with external reviewers and the Project Officer from the European Commission side took place (virtually) on June 16, 2021, wherein the FARCROSS consortium successfully presented the results of the work of the project during the first 18 months of the project. The FARCROSS project aims to connect major stakeholders of the energy value chain and demonstrate integrated hardware and software solutions that will facilitate the “unlocking” of the resources for the cross-border electricity flows and regional cooperation. The project will promote state-of-the-art technologies to enhance the exploitation/capacity/efficiency of transmission grid assets, either on the generation or the transmission level.

Continue reading Successful first review for the FARCROSS H2020 Innovation Action

UBITECH participates at the virtual kick-off meeting hosted by ICCS (June 16, 2021) of the 5G-IANA Innovation Action, officially started on June 1st, 2021. The project is funded by the European Commission and the EU Member States under the Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101016427) and spans on the period June 2021 – May 2024. The 5G-IANA project aims at providing an open 5G experimentation platform, on top of which third party experimenters (i.e., SMEs) in the Automotive-related 5G-PPP vertical will have the opportunity to develop, deploy and test their services.

Continue reading UBITECH undertakes the technical coordination of the 5G-IANA Innovation Action on 5G Intelligent Automotive Network Applications

Mr. Anastasis Tzoumpas, Head of the Electrical Power & Energy Systems Research Group of UBITECH ENERGY, participates as speaker and panellist at the 10th InnoGrid Edition “Living the Transition”, organized by the European Distribution System Operators’ Association (E.DSO) and the European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSO-E) on Friday, June 4 and Friday, June 11.

Continue reading UBITECH ENERGY participates as panellist at the “Innovating in asset management” digital round table of InnoGrid 2021